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That makes perfect sense to me. I've never seen anyone use Rexx outside of an IBM-heavy environment.

REXX was often used as the scripting language for IVR systems. I haven’t touched an IVR system in 18 years so no idea if it still is.

Yeah, the main references I found to IVR systems and REXX were from IBM articles discussing IVR, and some open-source Asterisk-based systems using ooRexx that appear to have been created as an open-source alternative to IBM OS/2 IVR solutions that used REXX.

OS/2 is the primary environment where I had experience reading and writing REXX a long time ago. I was also aware of it being used in IBM mainframe systems, but I had no direct experience there.

My last experience with IVR and REXX was setting up a system in the mid-2000s to do identity verification for loan applicants. I can't remember the name of the software. It ran on Windows server and wasn't an IBM product.

I also used REXX on OS/2 systems including doing some development using Watcom VX-REXX which you can basically think of as Visual Basic but with REXX. I released a GUI FTP program I developed with it to the OS/2 BBS but last I looked couldn't find it in the OS/2 BBS archives.

Anyone wanting to do non-trivial scripting and owning an Amiga from Workbench 2 onward.

Yes, sadly I was not rich enough as a kid to own an Amiga. By the time I could have afforded one, it would have been more for the novelty of having one than something practical for me to spend money on.

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